concrete from the pathway
as he yanked him in jerks along it and dumped him in a heap on his
doorstep, and rolled the pensioner around in a ball until his face
was visible to show to his daughter, who came over to the door.
“ Thanks
very much!” she answered, when he told her of the incredible deed
he had done her.
Yet as he
turned to walk away, she moaned back, “But what happened to his
wheelchair?”
He immediately ignored her and rushed away,
and rain came blasting down, and as they vanished behind him he
watched the pensioner waving his fist at him, and he wondered over
and over why he had not used the taxi to get back, instead of
having to walk through pouring rain, soaked through, tired, and he
realized that the taxi driver had actually known him!
Chapter 15
The Dream
During the night Cameron’s dreams went into
overdrive and it was beyond belief that he could dream such things
and began as a fight for survival with his body constantly altering
to stop it being destroyed by a colossal infernal!
He seemed to escape by darting out of it into
a dark forest.
The dark wood was unrecognizable even though
he did not know why, as it looked normally, but he enjoyed it and
his body seemed to reform to it, and he considered what could have
occurred and what was happening, and what his mind was generating
for him.
It was strange and it seemed to adapt to the
surrounding environment it had set itself in and he realized he was
now some form of creature lurking in the long shadows of an unknown
wood, and he realized he had to be a werewolf and that he had been
forming into it and he treated it like his body’s hideous reaction
and revenge on him for his treatment of it and his hangover, and he
watched shadows of his formation like a monster demon wolf creeping
about and he contemplated the vast dangers to his survival for no
reason, and the contemplation of how he could survive without the
technology that he had, and he wondered if it was his body’s way of
informing him of something!
He realized his body had gone crazy and he
considered opening his eyes and waking but he was so tired he could
not even be bothered doing that, and realized that he would have to
have more rest and it was perhaps what his body wanted him to
know.
He had sensations of being trapped out on a
strange celestial fantasy wood with unknown forms and realized as a
werewolf creature he had to fight to survive and he fought to
escape from the vicinity.
While he shifted monster shadow shapes of him
shifted strangely through the wood and he watched a small black cat
shift near him, and he examined it, and wondered if he was going to
eat the thing and his body decided to alter his appearance to be
more like it and his colossal monster form altered to it.
His strange giant cat shadows shifted in the
moonlight, probing into the dark, and he shifted on like a cat and
studied everything in his surroundings, expecting the worst hideous
encounters to be lurking there.
While he propelled himself on he adapted and
formed more powerful legs, razor-sharp claws, and creature fangs,
and occasionally thick tentacles formed and expanded from his neck
and slithered around, and while shifting his head tendrils formed
from his ears and shuddered frantically testing the air for signs
of dangers and life forms.
His monstrous cat shapes silhouetted
everywhere as he made incredible leaps through trees, further than
any other creature, and he sensed distant humans within the wood
and realized that the cat formation he had taken took its energy
from the consumption of small animals and he decided to wake
himself!
Chapter 16
The Complaint
Cameron was tiredly resting on his bed,
dreamily falling asleep again, wondering if he could have a similar
dream as the night before and examine what happened and wondered if
he could alter it to his original self and he might recall his
memories of himself.
He curiously watched a new soldier march in
the
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